Good Prejudice

For the sake of ten I will not destroy it . . . 

 - From Genesis 18

Earlier today, I read an article critical of a statement by Lebron James. He was asked why he hates the city of Boston. His answer: "Because they're all a bunch of <blankety-blank> racists."

Where was his evidence? Well, he was playing in Boston, and one or two fans, out of thousands, hollered out some racist epithets at him. 

Lebron was condemning the entire city of millions, because of a couple of isolated catcalls from the stands of a hyped-up sports crowd. He was being prejudiced, or even racist, against an entire group of people, because of the words and deeds of a thin sliver of the total population. 

That's what racism is. 

In like manner, otherwise good people . . . otherwise wonderful people . . . are having their very lives ruined if they do not hold the "correct" viewpoints, according to today's "woke" doctrines. A casual remark . . . even one made decades ago, can be used to destroy careers, families, lives. 

Even members of the same family are stereotyping each other, to the point of racist-like treatment. A cousin you have known and loved for decades, in whom you placed all of your trust, is suddenly anathema, simply for voting differently than you, in the last election.

But God does stereotyping differently. In Sodom and Gomorrah, He was ready to wipe out the entire two cities, leaving only the smoke drifting off into the Heavens. All of the citizens of the two wicked cities would be eliminated, almost instantly - each one, like all the others: gone, in a whiff. 

UNLESS . . . 

Unless, ten good people could be found, out of the city of maybe hundreds of thousands. And while Abraham did not ask God about changing His mind for the sake of five, or even one good resident of the cities, I think we get the point. 

Where humans see one bad apple, and extend their judgment upon every other person like the bad one; God looks down upon an entire city of wickedness; but if he finds just ten good people (or less), He will view the entire city as "good," and  withhold His judgment. 

We need more prejudice. But we need the good kind of prejudice. The one that sees one good person, and then assumes that everyone like that good person, must also be good. 

That would help the world's problems. Right?